As stated in section 5.1, the responsibilities and powers of the Southern and Eastern Integrated Transport Authority were enacted during 2003 to oversee and manage the procurement phase and the initial operational stage (Southern and Eastern Integrated Transport Authority 2009b: p.5) on behalf of the Victorian Government. In 2009, its accountabilities were transferred to Linking Melbourne Authority to "better reflect [the latter's] ongoing role in delivering [a range of road] projects which link communities, jobs and opportunities" (Linking Melbourne Authority 2010: p.6), thus incorporating the statutory role for EastLink into its existing portfolio of projects (for the Southern and Eastern Integrated Transport Authority, this change meant that it would assume responsibility for overseeing construction of the Peninsula Link inter-change project (Linking Melbourne Authority 2010: p.6)). However, the following year, the obligations were again transferred to another statutory body - VicRoads - due to the introduction of Victoria's Transport Integration Act 2010 (Linking Melbourne Authority 2010: p.5). Such changes may have the potential to expose government to unintended risks including corporate memory loss due to staff changes during critical hand-over periods.